Tripple pronged Cactus along the victoria highway

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Explorers, many years ago, i recall travelling from Katherine to Broome along the Victoria hwy, and seeing cactus and rocks much thesame as from the old Roadrunner cartoons. My memory had them at Gregory National Park and Timber Creek.
A recent trip to Gregory NP via Top springs thenTimber Creek, and Kunnunurra failed to find any trace of the area.
Has anyone noticed this terrain whilst travelling the Victoria, and can point me in the right direction????
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Andrew

b4 you bag me out, walk a mile in my shoes, then your a mile away and have my shoes :)

Actually, in a place called Hurricane in Utah USA, we stopped to buy icecream from the Trading Post - we chose the "prickly pear" flavour after the lady told us they made it there - and for sure there was cactus everywhere. It is simply divine - so if you ever get a chance, do try it.

I drove the inland route from NSW to Townsville back in '86 and the paddocks looked like forests of pear, so thick there was no way you could walk through it, let alone put stock in there.
5 years later I did the same drive and couldn't believe the impact the bugs had had on the Prickly Pear, a few isolated bushes where there had been impenetrable thicket.

Speaking of Utah, Michelle... I remember reading your wonderful blog about your Southwest trip. What happened to it? Hopefully it is still up and I'm simply overlooking it. I have visited all the same places so it was fun to read about your experiences. :)

As for cactus in Oz... I'll try to avoid importing any when I visit! :) And just as important, avoid taking home the beetle or bug that likes to eat it!!

Thanks Candice - oh dear for some reason they have changed status and are now hidden.... not just that trip but heaps of our old blogs. I will have to investigate this and get them back up - thanks for letting me know!

Candice we have fixed the problem with our missing blogs so here is the link to that day in Utah the day before our Zion National Park visit when we had to travel to a town to Hurricane and passed through a crazy town callled "Virgin" whose main feature was a crazy-looking Trading Post with odd buildings and prickly pear cactus out the front -
here is the blog for that day -https://www.exploroz.com/Members/82.875/9/2011/Bryce_Canyon_National_Park.aspx

I'm familiar with Virgin and Springdale, though I don't recall ever actually stopping in them, so you are ahead of me there. :)

I see you, like me, learned the hard way: When you book hotels via those "third-party" sites, call the hotel directly to verify they actually have the reservation! Sometimes the information doesn't reach the hotel, for some reason.

I think you may be referring to the Saguaro Cactus? Most have been eradicated as they can become a pest. Not as invasive as prickly pear though (you can eat the fruit from both plants- though I've never tried the Saguaro).